The constitutionally elected Haitian President is flown out in the dead of night like a thief. His residence trashed. Haiti's new medical university is shut down and occupied by U.S. Marines. His foundation, everything in it, notably the programs to feed the homeless, malnourished and orphans and provide education, through the children-run television station, are looted and destroyed. Marines, stand by. No schooling for you uppity Blacks daring to be self-reliant. Creatively putting together, literally out of thin air, these educational edifices and the new medical university, despite 14-years of US/Euro obstructions and embargoes!

      How dare you? No mercy.

      This is payback!

      Listen, you Black Haitian people: Get back into your place! You must DEPEND on our fake US/Euro generosity!

      There, there now, we-US/Euros are back in control and Ambassador Foley is running things in Haiti as IT SHOULD BE. That dreaded Aristide is gone. But, don't despair. Here, take some drugs to assuage the terror and pain! What? Be a docile Black! Bow to your new Haitian heroes. We U.S./Euros handpicked them for you ourselves. We'll take care of you. No worries. It's better now. Don't you see - enforced ignorance is a whole lot better than education. What? No one's being chased down, killed and carried out in body bags and sealed containers.

      What? We've got godzillion U.S. aid dollars coming into Haiti now that that corrupt Arisitide is gone. You'll get electricity and lots to eat. What? Schools built by president Aristide's party are destroyed? No worries. President Aristide built almost 100 schools, more than had ever been built in Haiti's 200-year history. There were only 30 before Lavalas came to power. We know. But trust us. You don't need an education to work at assembly plants. It will only crowd your poor Black mind with unnecessary information.

      That's only a rumor. He was not democratically elected! He was not kidnapped! Don't you watch TV? Don't you read SOFA, FANM KAY, NCHR, PAPDA and ISC (Group 184) press releases! The U.S. brings freedom, it does not take it away!

      Someday, when you learn to appreciate our notions of democracy for Black and Brown peoples of the world, then we'll let you meet to discuss politics and other civil society issues. For now, you can't demonstrate freely. Yes, but three months ago we were trying to get rid of Aristide. Of course we had to demand that our opposition to him get the right to freely demonstrate, even if they were violent and constantly veered off the licensed demonstration paths, which led to more violence. That was the point. Foment violence to destabilize and feed our U.S/Euro and HDP ("Friends of Haiti")-sanctioned Haiti destabilization campaign with some good Black-on-Black-shooting footages. It was a great show. Our men on the ground couldn't believe how the old guard was able to swamp over the small but legitimately democratic opposition forces. Easy as a cake walk.

      But now that our sort of democracy is in process, why would Ambassador Foley go out of his way to ask our new dictatorship to not trample on Lavalas freedom of speech and demonstration? You simply cannot be allowed to demonstrate, especially as Aristide is now only in Jamaica. Thanks to those damn bleeding heart Black Caucus liberals. But make no mistake, that's only temporary.

      As soon as it's plausible, this 14-year nuisance will be eliminated and Aristide so castrated it won't matter what he says. Have you noticed the pro-Aristide and miscellaneous Black dead littering Haiti's street corners? Most have their pants down. No semen will past through those organs to threaten our white world. Never again. No sirree-bob. Heed our warning, our plans. Or, you'll be castrated literally or figuratively. One way or the other.

      No pro-Aristide demonstrations. No! We've got to pour fear down your spine first. We will tell you when to demonstrate. Who to vote for and when to gather together in crowds. Be patient. We've got tons of U.S. Canadian and European Union aid monies that will start flowing in.

      Justice? Never. That's something Haitians would have to do themselves and it would mean exposing U.S./Euro complicity in crimes against humanity in Haiti for decades, no centuries. So, no. Justice must be deferred. Haiti's peoples, from all sectors, must again reconcile with injustice like in 1994, 1915, 1957, and 1806. It will be easier all around and wise to accept the rule of our death squad, narco-drug traffickers, sweatshop kingpins and Black overseers.

      WE ARE NOT THE ONES RADICALIZING HAITI'S PEACEFUL PEOPLES! Don't even place your savagery at U.S./Euro doors. There's already too much "Haiti fatigue" in the western countries. Don't. Don't even dare us U.S/Euros to find some pretext to nuke Haiti out of its miserable existence permanently!

      Schooling? O.K. sometime soon. But we must monitor it, understand?

      Pepe education is great for our chosen ones amongst you, not all of you. Allow Ambassador Foley and the French legionnaires to introduce you bad-behaving Black Haitians to your new Haitian heroes.

      Forget Aristide. He's past, finito. A corrupt cretin who refused to give up all his scruples as we U.S/Euros wanted him to. If you people had not voted for him, we would not have had to go to all this trouble. If Aristide had totally sold you all out, he would STILL be in power. Now, we've got a public relations mess to clean up, in addition to exterminating you remaining savages. This is exhausting for us! You think we want to waste time with you? This is your fault for not doing what you where told by our sensible Blacks, in the opposition, in the first place. What? Well, if you won't bow , we'll outlaw the Lavalas party and forbid it from participating in elections in Haiti, forever.

      Our U.S./Euro infiltrators within the Lavalas government and the Metayers, the Danny Toussaints, the former Cap Haitian Chief of police, Guy Philippe, Jean Tatoune, Louis Jodel Chamblain, sweatshop kingpin, Andre Apaid, Jr., the unelected mayor of Gonaive, Winter Etienne - all, the rebels with no cause but the dollar and raw power - these are our U.S./Euro sensible Blacks, Haiti's heroes now, as IT SHOULD BE.

      What? I can't explain the finer points of democracy to you Black Haitian people. What? You don't have to understand. Just submit, damn it. And, I mean now, if you wish to take another breath, you chimeres!

      No doubt about it. True that.!

      The U.S. is practically saying, through its action, telling Aristide he doesn't have a place in Port-au-Prince. But drug and death squad Kingpins, Lavalas infiltrators/opportunists and U.S. Haitian mercenaries do! And all, were in fact, on February 29, 2004, for all intent and purposes, practically U.S-escorted into or empowered out of hiding in Port-au-Prince and unleashed on the heretofore IRI/NED/USAID/U.S. Embassy criminalized Aristide supporters and Haiti's mass electorate in general. Why? To complete the demobilization, depoliticizing and, instead, systematize the new zombification of the entire population with fear, drugs, jail, torture.

      Hey, guns are OK - if Black people are using them to kill Black people. No demilitarization necessary. Or, in this case in Haiti, if used to kill Haitian people standing up against U.S. Empire - if used against pro-democracy Aristide supporters, or any other Haitian wanting a domestic economy for Haiti.

      Drugs, guns and U.S. infiltrators were used to destroy young Black civil rights advocates, their neighborhoods and organizations back in the 1960s/70s in the United States. Why tamper with a successful blueprint?

      Today, the same old same old is being done under the pretext that ARISTIDE WAS CORRUPT! simply to demobilize the legitimate Haitian voices against Empire and resistance to racism, exclusion, structural adjustment and "globalization."

      Today, in Haiti, the meticulously planned quagmire and Right Wing U.S./CIA madness gets official OAS sanction. Recently, the "international's" new Haitian puppet, Latorture, went to Gonaive along with OAS officials and a State Department representative, got a thug welcome as they all stood together celebrating with murderers like Jean Tatoune and his other Gonaive presumably "uncorrupted-by-U.S.-standards-for-Haiti" Haitians who are more worthy of place in Haiti than President Aristide .

      The Metayer/Latorture/Jean Tatoune-Gonaive covert operation was deep cover indeed. Except any 5-year old Haitian child would have told, if the corporate media had ever asked, that Amiot Metayer was spared in the Raboteau FRAPH massacre for a purpose. It wouldn't have been so difficult if any one in the international or Haiti's co-opted media had been interested in the truth beyond U.S. State Department press releases, to find out that Amiot Metayer testified against the Raboteau victims. What other information could have been exposed to help Haiti's democracy, world morality and justice, if any Haitian or international journalist had delved into the Metayer brother's "Jean Tatoune/FRAPH," etc. connection. Or, the Olivier Nadal connection in this covert Gonaive drama gone national in Haiti.

      Perhaps an investigative report might have divulged the Latorture and other Haitian "international's" affiliation and connections to the old guard before Latorture was appointed head house puppet. How many lives could have been spared, if journalists had done their jobs and exposed the phony NED/IRI/USAID created "civil society" fronts in Haiti; emphasized the "Jean Tatoune and FRAPH jail break" as opposed to the easier "Amiot Metayer jail break" State Department spinner fed to them ad nauseum?

      Could the "Evil Lavalas" media spin, used as cover for the planned Guy Philippe entrance back into Haiti (complete with his own imbedded AP reporter) as "freedom fighter" have been exposed as the criminal CIA project it was? No corporate media would listen to the anti-Coup D’état Haitians who knew that Guy Philippe in Gonaive meant Jean Tatoune who had always been in Gonaive with the Metayers. It wasn't happenstance, but media fabrications and slants which spun us the tale of Guy Philippe suddenly joining Butler Metayer in his quest to "avenge" his "hero" brother’s death. Could this thinly veiled pretext to bring back Empire, the old Black bourgeois and Duvalierist guards and their Haitian military and paramilitaries have been exposed before the river of blood started on February 29, 2004?

      Could we have been able to withdraw their "plausible deniability?" Would it have taken much legwork to expose the CIA funding of Haitian mercenaries at training camps in the Dominican Republic? Mercenaries such as Guy Philippe connected to the CIA drug traffickers in Gonaive and Cap Haitien? Especially after so many of them were openly talking about it to all and sundry all over Haiti and in the Diaspora? And especially after the Ottawa Initiative became public knowledge? (See, Canadian Officials Initiate Planning for Military Ouster of Aristide: http://www.haiti-progres.com/2003/sm030305/eng03-05.html)

      No matter. Poor Haitians are bleeding the earth red in Haiti for all our failures to stop the Empire. The U.S.-puppets in Gonaive are sitting down with their OAS bosses and new leader, Latorture. The post-Aristide bloodbath is being properly managed, celebrated and maintained by the U.S. Marines. (See, "Haiti's Interim Leader Praises Uprising" by Paisley Dodds, Associated Press Writer, March 20, 2004)

      Oh, I forgot. Let's move on. Bye gones be bye gones. The past is past!

      Galling! Alas, our poor Haiti. President Aristide called for help to reinforce the civilian police, help save Haitian lives and Haiti's besieged democracy. On February 29, 2004, the international's help came for the Haitian people's protagonist.

      Euro/US madness was put into application in Haiti as drug gang heroes, death squad thugs, police-killers, convicted murderers, drug dealers and their unelected civilian wing, who could NEVER have been allowed by the mass Haitian electorate into power in Haiti, were placed in Haiti's National Palace, courtesy of the internationals’ firepower.

      Before February 5, and 29th, 2004, the Haitian people were under a killing weight: Their first democratically elected President had suffered a U.S.-backed Coup D’état eight months into his 1990 mandate. A civil war ensued. 5000 Haitians were killed, 70,000 dehumanized, experimented upon and jailed on the U.S. offshore penal colony known as Guantanmo Bay. Countless thousands drowned at sea and were eaten by sharks. 300,000 within Haiti had to go into hiding for the three years of Aristide's exile in Washington because they were being chased by Guy Philippe, Louis Jodel Chamblain, Toto Constant and their other FRAPH, FAHD cohorts. Their crime? They voted for Aristide.

      Thousands protested. Some Haitians, especially Haitian women in the U.S. went every day, demonstration license or no license, for three years, sleet, snow, rain or storm, to sit in front of the U.N. demanding the Haitian people's vote and will be respected. Today, some still have not regained their voices as it used to be before. Some where broken. Many died from the psychological wounds of fighting so hard and so long under the Duvaliers. And never, ever being able to go home in peace.

      After Clinton took the White House, we thought things would get better. But no. Haitian asylum seekers were still automatically repatriated or put in Guantanmo Bay. Meanwhile the Special Forces in Ecuador were training Guy Philippe and other Haitian military. In 1994, the National Labor Committee reports, at the height of the killing of Lavalas supporters in Haiti, Disney made a profit that year of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, while Wal-Mart made a profit of 2.8 billion for the year.

      After the Haitian people died and died and died and died, unable to ignore world public opinion and the sense that the hunting down and killing of Aristide supporters in Haiti from 1991 to 1994 was intolerable, after years of vacillating, Clinton finally sent in U.S. troops to Haiti to stop the NED/IRI/Right Wing U.S.-sponsored killings and death squads in Haiti. Mostly, the troops were sent it because there were still too many Haitian asylum seekers circumventing the Berlin Wall of U.S. coast guard boats to reach Florida shores.

      Aristide was returned back to Haiti, but he had to agree that he had SERVED as Haitian president, for three years, while in Washington in exile. Therefore could not remain in power but the remaining one year of his term. Thus, the U.S. assured the Coup D’état generals their victory. The Haitian people lost three years of democratic rule to their protagonist. Aristide as a condition for returning also had to agree to certain neoliberalism plans and to reconcile with the Haitian military that oustered him by giving the top generals amnesty and jobs to the others within the new Haitian civilian police!

      Thus, murderers, drug dealers and death purveyors were given jobs "to maintain law and order" within the new fledging democracy at U.S. insistence, in order to destabilize it. Yet, today, the corporate media writes that President Aristide is corrupt! Who, pray tell, forced the Haitian people to reconcile with injustice merely to have their vote respected? The United States. So who is more corrupt. The one who had no choice but to deal and negotiate with murderers and drug dealers from the beginning of his rule, or the one using might to push these injustices down Haiti's throat?

      It is generally understood today that the 1994 return of President Aristide by the Clinton Administration was to stem the flow of Haitian refugees to Florida, and to break the pro-democracy movement members still left standing after three years of the greatest terror campaign Haitians had ever faced. Thus, the old Haitian military was not demilitarized by the 20,000 troops sent down to Haiti. Some of it had to do with the fact that one month after Clinton sent in the U.S. troops, Newt Ginrich and his right wing cohorts took congressional control. Thus, the new civilian police in Haiti was not professionalized, had to take in old Haitian military and paramilitary, and young untainted new recruits were consistently being solicited into U.S. intelligence to destabilize the Lavalas government. Even the head of the U.S. police-training program had to quit because of the consistent recruitment machinations by U.S. intelligence.

      Aristide left power before his term was over as instructed by the U.S. But when he was re-elected again in 2000, his U.S.-financed opposition had made no dent in capturing public opinion. They lost the election even though the U.S. banded all 15 of them together as one party (the Convergence) to try and maximize the votes. They got less than 4% of the vote the one time they went to the polls. Yet and still, after the Presidential elections, they set up a parallel government, complete with their own President. The U.S. and OAS did not denounce this.

      When that didn't work to destroy Haitian democracy, the U.S. forced the Aristide government to pay 30 million in old Duvalier debt and in IMF loans. When that didn't work, the U.S./Euros placed an economic embargo on the Haitian people to starve them into submission. And forced the Aristide government to stop rice and gas subsidies that were helping the people cope with the skyrocketing prices and insisted that those subsidies be used instead to pay off World Bank/IMF debt. In addition, Aristide was forced to further empty the Haitian treasury and make installment payments and interest commissions on the $500 million dollar IDB loan the U.S. had stopped from being disbursed to the Haitian government! Meanwhile the Republican party and USAID continued to pour money into Haiti to fund opposition leaders, journalists and push at Lavalas officials within the government to join in with the old Duvalierist guard that had violently overthrown Aristide in 1991.

      When even that didn't work and Aristide continued to have popular support, the U.S./Euros, through their USAID/NED/IRI "Democracy Project" stepped up the financing and political support to opposition radio outlets, journalists and phony NED-created "civil society" fronts headed by opposition leaders. The State Department gave visas to opposition journalists and sponsored a tour for these journalists to the U.S. to visit the major paper's editorial boards to tell their story about "the corrupt Aristide who was arming a slum militia." Meanwhile Aristide's visa to the U.S. was revoked as well as the visa of certain Haitian security people who had helped protect Aristide during the three or four previous Guy Philippe attempts at Coup D’état, notably the one on December 17, 2001. But the OAS and State Department vociferously denied there was an attempt at Coup D’état. But those dozens who died fighting and thousands of Haitians who converged on the National Palace, using their very bodies as armor to stop the criminals from coming back would disagree. Guy Phillip then fled to the Dominican Republic to avoid prosecution.

      When this third Coup D'etat attempt against Aristide by CIA asset, Guy Philippe didn't work, the military wing of NED, that is the CIA, helped plan, equip, and train the other former death squad leaders from 1991-1994 who were safely in exile and under U.S./Euro protection, especially those in nearby Dominican Republic. In addition, the Haiti Democracy Project was inaugurated in Washington to head the "let's establish Aristide is corrupt and arming gangs campaign" in the U.S.

      This organization was co-founded by the right-wing Boulos family and advised and supported by Jesse Helm protege, Mr. Roger Noriega. Its board is run by former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Timothy Carney and such other "friends of Haiti" as the U.S. Ambassador to the OAS. (See, http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1351#1351 ) Thus, the Haiti Democracy Project is filled-to-capacity with the Duvalierist representatives from the same right-wing group in Haiti who proceeded to kill and repress supporters of President Aristide during the first U.S.-sponsored Coup D’état.

      Haiti Democracy Project's main job was to demobilize the Lavalas supporters in the U.S. and in Haiti and submit candidates to replace President Aristide whom the "friends of Haiti" had closer relations with once the violent overthrow of Aristide had been achieved.

      Meanwhile, when the non-demilitarization of the old guard, the starvation tactics, media Coup D’état and foreign funding of opposition, the killing of Aristide voters and/or defection of Lavalas leaders still had not completely destroyed the popular support for democracy in Haiti, but instead forced many in Haiti's ghettos to defend themselves with arms, then the opposition was revamped. The opposition leaders met with IRI officials in the Dominican Republic and came back as "Group 184." The old Convergence was practically consumed within this revamped "civil society" opposition coalition. But still, these reactionaries and sweatshop owners had little in common with the Haitian masses. No connection to them other than their uses as their underpaid and overworked domestics, garden boys, cooks and nurturers who raised their children for them.

      That connection between the "opposition" and the masses they wanted to rule had to be made. Or, all was lost. Thus, on Dec. 5, 2003, the new PR campaign that Aristide was oppressing "students?" was launched. Even if they were not students, Reuters and AP reported what the opposition journalists and State Department press releases fed to them.

      Then, the opposition boycotted the bi-centennial celebrations and told all their corporate media cohorts that Aristide would be out of office by January 1, 2004. When that didn't happen, even after daily demonstrations where the international media consistently failed to report the popular support President Aristide had as represented by the number of demonstrators for Aristide and against the opposition. When the civilian police still seemed loyal to Aristide, despite all the ravages, obstructions and U.S. blocking of necessary equipment and arms. When the Diaspora showed up in great numbers despite the State Department warning not to go to Haiti. When, by January 1, 2004, the Haitian police, were, by and large, still on the side of democracy; when the starvation tactics did not work; when the media smear campaign had not achieved the complete demobilization of the people; when the daily demonstrations failed. Then, on February 5, the U.S. opened the Dominican borders - there were 900 U.S. soldiers there for over a year - and in came Louis Jodel Chamblain and Guy Philippe with their U.S.-trained commandos, fully geared in U.S. army gear and armed with U.S. M16s and M60s; all terrain vehicles, armor piercing equipment and rocket launchers.

      President Aristide stood firm. The people took out their stones and machetes. But little by little towns fell. Port-au-Prince mobilized to live free or die. The people reasoned, there are only 200 of them and millions and millions of us in Port-au-Prince.

      By February 28, 2004, Aristide had even agreed to power share with the unelected opposition to stop the indiscriminate killing of his supporters in Haiti. But no dice, the diplomatic maneuvering was a Bush/ Powell charade to buy Guy Phillip time to take over more towns. Wall street was backing the old guard thugs who wanted full control in Haiti. Haitians in the U.S. were being psychologically battered, at least one suffered a heart attack. Haitians again started dying all over Haiti simply because they voted for Aristide in 2000. History, cruel and unrelenting, was repeating itself.

      By February 28, 2004, President M'beki of South Africa had sent Haiti the police equipment Aristide had been begging the U.S. to release. It was to arrive on an aircraft on February 29, 2004. By February 28, 2004, President Chavez was also offering help and the people of Port-au-Prince where getting the news of help to come from the underground, the internet and through cell phones.

      When all of Bush, Sr and now Bush Jr's deliberate, planned destruction of democracy in Haiti seemed to be about to be stopped.

      Then through the same sort of force and deception and Toussaint-Louverture betrayal the French had used back in 1802 against the African captives battling against slavery and colonialism, the U.S. got the Marines to fly Aristide out of Haiti while simultaneously escorting the convicted murderers past the stunned and disbelieving Haitian people.

      The people didn't react fast enough. They were still in shock upon hearing their 14-year-, no 75-year-, no 200-year-old fight had been decimated, gutted by Aristide, the symbol of their liberty from social exclusion in Haiti and the symbol of independence from Empire to them, whether merited or not. They were shocked that he had resigned without one word, without even sending a Kreyol pwen, to them!

      The betrayal, the complete invalidation by the only person to give Haiti's Black masses official value in the world and who spoke, on their behalf to the world, that was too much to be contemplated.

      The shock and awe of that news demobilized the Port-au-Prince crowd just long enough for the U.S. to get its murderers to trash all edifices of Aristide's rule (his house, foundation, school) to destroy all hope he has a home to return to. Just long enough for their Haitian mercenaries to quickly use this time of questioning to empty out the National Penitentiary and unleashed 3000 drug dealers and criminals to join the Guy Philip crowd.

      By the time the news came out that Aristide had not voluntarily resigned and had not voluntarily left without saying a word to his constituency; by that time, the U.S. "friends of Haiti" had gotten U.N. security council sanction to occupy Haiti and the blood of Haitians was already pouring, flowing senselessly, pointlessly and unnaturally and could paint the entire Atlantic ocean red.

      Inquiring minds wonder how much Disney, Wal-Mart et al are making right now in Haiti? How much did the profit margin go up as of February 29, 2004 - the day the Bush administration handily disenfranchised almost 9 million Black people in Haiti? How much does each Haitian dead count in U.S./Euro big-business profits? What more indignities shall the people of Haiti suffer at the hands of the internationals - these so-called "Friends of Haiti"? For add, in contrast to the U.S./Euro treatment of the democratically elected Haitian president after they forced his ouster, that when Baby Doc Duvalier was overthrown in 1986, he was allowed to go into golden exile to his estate in France. When Raoul Cedras, the leader of the bloody first U.S-sponsored (Bush, Sr.) Coup D’état against Aristide was defeated in 1994, he was allowed amnesty by the U.S. - his Haitian residence and compound was protected by the U.S. military, then leased out to the invading Americans so this coup leader, General Raoul Cedras - a Fort Benning, Georgia, School of the Americas alum - could have income coming in from Haiti! in his U.S.-sponsored golden retirement in Panama!

      Why is France back in the picture here? Because Aristide is the only Haitian leader to ask that France pay back, to the Haitian people, the $22 billion in reparations Haiti's people had to pay France in 1825 because France was, through constant gunboat diplomacy since 1804, trying to re-enslave Haiti's people because it had suffered economic lost when the successful Haitian revolution forced them to lose the Africans as "property."

      With Aristide gone and discredited and their Francophile mulattos back in power, France won’t have to worry about paying back the $22 billion forked over that first systematized the vicious Haitian cycle of debt, dependency and foreign domination with its 32, now 33, foreign supported Coup D’états - the cycle the Haitian people had been trying to break with the free election of President Aristide. No need after Aristide was flown off to France's dominion in the Central African Republic on February 29, 2004 surrounded by both French and U.S. soldiers for concern about paying off the 22 billion, or even, God forbid! reparations for the 300 years of free labor under slavery before that. Not to mention, the possibility of a democratically advanced Haiti perhaps someday gathering the strength to ask the U.S. for the money it fleeced from the Haitian treasury when it kindly "refinanced" and took over the French debt back in 1915 with a 19-year U.S. occupation.

      Imagine for years now, we-Haitians will be talking about the "good old days" prior to February 5 and 29th, 2004! Haiti's glory days!

      Will the world stand by, watching these acts of war progress like this - this deliberate genocide planned for Haiti's peoples and systematically now being executed with the help of Black opportunists, political infiltrators, criminals and those tiny Francophone and Eurocentric-Haitians unhinged from the womb of Haiti, progress like this? I think not.

      But the world does. It did just stand by, in 1936, when Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie begged the League of Nations to stop Italy from tear gassing his people. The world just stood by, in 1915, when Haiti's peoples and Rosalvo Bobo, asked for help against the Wall Street and French financing and rivaling thugs fomenting social chaos and inciting violence to maintain Haiti in debt, dependency and under foreign domination.

      U.S. financial and political firepower won that little dirty war. Then it took Haitians 75-years, or up until 1990 with the election of President Aristide to shake the U.S.-backed state terror. In 1915, the U.S. officially took over from France, making Haiti a Black ruled U.S colony. In 1990, the possibility of Dessaline's idea of Haiti as a Black ruled independent nation seemed possible. We know the end of that story. Or do we?

      The evidence shows, today, 14 years after the Haitian people mustered the muscles to take command of their own country, U.S and France in 2004, joined arms openly, no longer covertly, but hand in hand together once again, with Canada also weighing in this time, to hurl the Haitian people back to rule by force, in the name of democracy. In the name of "bringing order" to those pro-Vodun, Aristide chimeres - a new way of saying, in the name of bringing civilization to those Black savages!

      The hour is late. The colonial blueprint unchanged..

      So, the only glimmer of hope must be fanned. Imagine this: the ouster of President Aristide united CARICOM and the AFRICAN UNION! Yes, the AFRICAN UNION!

      Something absolutely, simply unimaginable before February 29, 2004. Use your legacy my people - descendants of that ONE Black woman, mother of all the races. Built on that flickering Light. Use your common legacy people.

Marguerite Laurent, JD
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
March 22, 2004
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